Iranians Protest in Capital over Woman’s Death in Custody

Students at Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU), an Iranian public university, protesting following the controversial death of a young Kurdish woman while in custody by the "morality police", which enforces strict dress codes, in Iran's capital Tehran on September 19, 2022. (UGC / AFP)

Iranians took to the streets of the capital on Monday to protest the death of a young woman who was detained for violating the country’s conservative dress code.

The semiofficial Fars news agency said students in many Tehran universities gathered in protest, demanding an investigation into the death of Mahsa Amini and the dismantling of the morality police, who were holding her when she died.